How to prepare for CAT
Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by IIMs for admission
into its MBA Program is by far the most popular exam among graduates and
professional who want to build a career in Management. Although sort of
questions asked in CAT are not difficult and only tests basic aptitude,
mathematics and verbal English knowledge, but systematic preparation for it is
definitely required. Because apart from the concepts, speed is also very
important to crack the exam. Thus, ample practice is a necessity.
Amount of preparation or strategies for it depend on you
current skill level as well as surrounding educational or professional
conditions. Depending on these factors, there are three categories of people
who give the exam:
1.
Students, who have just passed the graduation
and thus need to start from scratch, understand thoroughly all the concepts and
practice them.
2.
Those students who have already prepared once
for the exam and know about the concepts. Just require brush up of concepts and
little more practice.
3.
People who are doing job as well as preparing
for CAT, they do not have ample amount of time. So, they usually require more
structured and selective preparation.
Certain methods of preparation are:
1.
Most popular way is to join a coaching institute
that gives training as well as sufficient practice for the exam and also for
the Group discussion and Personal interview. Mostly students who are still
pursuing graduation join such institutes in 3 or 4 year of college, on weekend
or weekdays as suits them. Some most popular institutes that offer CAT coaching
are::
a.
Triumphant Institute of Management Education
(T.I.M.E)
b.
Career Launcher
c.
IMS
d.
Career Forum
2.
Those students or professional that do not have
time or do not want to join any coaching institute can prepare on their own in
following ways::
a.
There are online coaching classes that can teach
you concepts through online classrooms as per your time requirements. This is
most suited for professionals who also have to keep up with their jobs.
b.
You can also self study either by buying MBA
preparation books like that R.S Agarwal or by purchasing preparation material
of CAT coaching institutes or such material is also available online. There are
certain websites that might tell you some tricks free of cost, you can refer
them too.
Books for CAT preparation
How to prepare for CAT, Tata
McGraw Hill by Muhamed Muneer
Tata McGraw Hill’s Test Series
for online CAT by Arun Sharma and Meenakshi Upadhyay(for online Cat
preparation)
For Quantative Aptitude
1.
Quant Aptitude, Tata McGraw Hill by Arun Sharma
2.
The Pearson guide to Quantative Aptitude for the
CAT by Nishit K.Sinha
For Data Interpretation
1.
How to prepare for Data Interpretation and
Logical Reasoning for CAT by Arun Sharma
2.
The Pearson guide to Data Interpretation and Logical
Reasoning for the CAT by Nishit K.Sinha
3.
Quantative Aptitude and Data Interpretation
by R.S. Agarwal
For Verbal Ability
1.
Verbal Ability and Reading comprehension for CAT
by Arun Sharma
2.
Verbal Ability for CAT by Sujit Kumar
3.
English Proficiency by IMS India
4.
Wren and Martin English Grammar.
Apart from this, you also need to
read business magazines like:
1.
Business Today by India Today
2.
Competition Success Review
Students also need to read
newspaper on daily basis to be updated with current affairs.
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